Little Primer of the Diet

So basically to better explain this diet I decided to make this post. This diet is not something I made up myself, however, is a diet from author Lyle McDonald, a gosh darn genius when it comes to anything fat loss or training specific. (www.bodyrecomposition.com)

The Basis of this 'crash' diet is to create a large caloric deficit for quick fat loss. This is not meant to be an extended diet. The idea behind this diet is to get all the necessary and essential nutrients and create a large caloric deficit. So first we need to look at what actually is essential of the macronutrients.
1. Carbs
2. Fat
3. Protein

1. Carbs are not essential for the average person. and most of you ARE average, not some special little butterfly or whatever analogy your mom may have told you (sorry). May many say its essential because your brain can only run on carbs. While this may be slightly true, your body can manufacture carbs by itself through gluconeogenesis, however it can't make very much. Also after a week or two of a no carb diet your body starts to produce ketones and can very likely go into a state of ketosis, don't worry this isn't the scary run to the doctor type ketosis, it is a diet enduced one. Once it produces ketones your brain can use that as an energy source. Hence why i said slightly true earlier, it can only use carbs until given proper circumstances and then can use ketones. Fun fact of the day; there is anecdotal evidence that if you are on a no carb diet long enough and remain on it long enough a few weeks to a month, that your brain may be able to easily switch between a carb and no carb diet quite easily, instead of going through the brain fog and negative side effects of that first week of switching. Sorry went off on quite a bit of a tangent, anyways Carbs are out.

2. Fat, ok lets get straight to the point. The fat that is essential is EPA and DHA both found in fish oils, so can you guess my next recommendation, start buying fish or invest in some fish oils

3. Protein, well you probably guessed by my first post, this is the essential part for maintaining muscle mass, repairing, pretty much anything going on its likely that protein plays a role in it.

So what are we looking at in the diet Lean protein and vegetables, high fiber low everything else vegetables, think broccoli , green beans, all the vegetables you carb lovers probably hate.

So a quick summary of what the diet consists of
1. 10 grams fish oil
2. No carbs!
3 depending on your body fat level anywhere from 1.5 grams of protein per lb of lean body mass  to up to 3 grams of protein per lb of lean body mass!. The leaner you are the more protein you need and the fatter you are the less food you need to have. Seems kinda backwards huh.
4. you can do exercise if you want, no necessary but if you do, don't do anywhere to the amount you would normally do.

clearly this is a very rough and short summary, I could write a book about all the details, well clearly since this is from a book, 'The Rapid Fatloss Handbook'. But there are even more things that could be added to the book since it came out but as the book stands, it works miraculous wonders if you stick to it. If you are truly interested please feel free to leave me a comment with your email and i could help you give it a go and stick to it. with all the proper details and all that fun stuff.